Description
The corpus that I have chosen will be a collection of songs used in
the Bloons Tower Defense (BTD) videogame series. It is a tower defense
strategy game where players strategically deploy towers to prevent
balloons from reaching the end of a predetermined path. The game is
catered towards all ages. A battles version also exists, where players
compete against other players. Songs have been collected from BTD5,
BTD6, Bloons Monkey City, and BTD Battles 2, BTD Battles 1 also exists,
but uses music from BTD5. The natural comparison groups here are the
different games, and how they compare against one another, as they have
all been composed by the same composer it offers interesting perspective
into how the general game has changed over time, and what changes in
music composition are made for different modes of play. The corpus is
completely filled, with all songs available on spotify, however the
music from earlier games does not exist in spotify, therefore the music
for games BTD 1-4 is not available. There are several genres used within
the music, which means that it might be difficult to compare songs from
a genre that occurs only once in the corpus. Examples of these are
“Beyond the Bloondrome” and “Let them eat Lead”, as these are metal/rock
songs, as well as “Onslaught” and “Primal One”, which contain very
uptempo music meant for Boss encounters. The most typical songs are the
main “theme” songs of the games, as these convey the general tone the
composer attempted to set for each game.
